I do not have to follow a religion to believe in God!

I love morning tea with my mother and I love the discussions which happen over that cup of tea. It is a special time for both of us. Sometimes. the discussions start revolving around religion and that is my favorite topic. She is a very religious lady who spends a major part of her day in serving god. I do not question anyone's faith because everyone has own way of connecting with God. So I am an atheist when i do not do all those things. So I wonder do I have to follow a religion to believe in God? I not only have to follow, but also do the rituals. So if someone is a follower of Islam or Christianity and does not do the rituals, he is a non believer? He is because he is following some system. So who designed the system? I am glad, all these religions exist because it proves the point which is written in Bhagwad Gita that in whatever form you desire me, worship me and believe in me, I am there for you. I come to you at that time in that form. So in whatever religion we are, or if we are not in any religion, whatever form we are worshiping him, he is there for us.

But why do we even have to worship him? Why cant we simply believe that we can love him? We love our parents, friends, do we make them sit and worship them? If they would ask us to do what we would feel? We would feel that they are trying to establish their power above us, would we like that? Then why do we think God likes all this? What would they prefect, we simply respect them, love them and be with them. Wouldn't God want same thing? Who would be happy with a relationship of fear? If you do this wrong would happen, so don't do. if you do not do this, something wrong would happen so you must do it. A person living under fear can never be free. So we can never have a free relation with god, till the time we are under his fear. So when can this relation be absolute? When can it be a complete relation?

God is always inside us and he is never separate from us. He loves us unconditionally and wants best for us. he wants us to be happy, even sometimes if it means we have to go through certain pains to be happy in future. He is always around us and is always a call away. We do not need to do anything for him to be there with us, we just have to believe that he is there and he will be there. We have to believe that if we would call, it would always be answered. We do not have to fear God because he loves everyone so much why its simple. Because we are his manifestation. All parents love their children unconditionally. We are his manifestation, so we do not have to fear him. We can have complaints because so many times we feel things are not happening as per us. But those complaints are out of ignorance because we might not know what is best for us at that time. Having a desire does not mean it is best. What we look at is only a life of physical experience. But what is there is a spirit having this experience. So have faith that you are always loved, you do not need to do anything to deserve God's love and he is always there. for that you do not need to do anything special, you do not have to follow any religion or do any ritual. You are always graced and the relation is always absolute if look into it.